Clean up has begun in earnest though crews are still checking on families in deep rural areas. Material donations are great though slowing down - monetary donations allow us to buy what's needed as needs change.

Flood waters have barely stopped rising. Aid in the Lumberton area where we are operating with tribal members and matriarchs is primarily coming from grassroots groups and smaller non-profit groups like us. Yes, we all are truely the ones we need. Please keep sharing to friends!

Please check out this great interview with Amy Cantrell of Beloved Asheville, our partner here in Asheville to gather and deliver aid. This is on our awesome, local FM radio station Asheville Free Media 103.3! Starts about minute 13: https://www.ashevillefm.org/show/please-pass-the-hacksaw/

So much going on! We have sent vehicles from Asheville everyday with supplies down to our contacts in the grassroots network where they have mostly been loaded onto small, private planes piloted by independent volunteers.

We are getting on the ground info and input on what supplies are needed from autonomous crews through text loops started by Blue Ridge Autonomous Defense (NC), Mutual Aid Disaster Relief ( https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/), River City Medic Collective (Richmond) and ourselves.

There are so many individuals connected to their communities networked here from Connecticut to Atlanta to Chicago and beyond. They are then networked in their local to draw the strength and resources needed now in coastal North Carolina for the people left behind to suffer. Individually we have meager resources, time or energy to deal with catastrophe - collectively we are who we need to survive these storms and their societal parallels.